Hackers attack the police, fire and emergency departments. An internal report from Tasmania’s Department of Police, Fire and Emergency Management has warned the agency is vulnerable to attack from cyber criminals without extra resourcing.
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China is building a huge digital surveillance system. The state collects massive amounts of data from willing citizens: the benefits are practical, and people who play by the rules are rewarded.
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The Chinese Communist Party is crafting a nightmare surveillance state flooding the country with an ocean of surveillance cameras which now invade the homes of minorities.
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Building an effective virtual government requires new ideas, innovative thinking and hard work. From cyber security to cloud computing to mobile devices, what’s hot and what works in the world of government technology.
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The Hacker Wars is a film about the targeting of hacktivists and journalists by the US government. Hacktivists are either terrorists or freedom fighters depending on one’s perspective on who should control information.
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The Internet has transformed the front lines of cyber warfare, and it’s leaving governments behind.
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The Health Service Executive has said some health services have been impacted since it was forced to shut down all of its IT systems after a major cyber attack.
Continue ReadingWhy The U.S. Can’t Stop Cyber Attacks
The U.S.A. recently faced a series of ransomware attacks and cyber attacks on critical infrastructure like the Colonial Pipeline, the city of Tulsa, and JBS, the worlds largest meat producer. Ransomware, a program that hackers use to hold digital information hostage, has become the top choice of malware for criminals.
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The world is entering a new era of cyber warfare, with cyber and autonomous weapons taking center stage.
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The FBI took control of a communications company called Anom in its infancy and turned that into a wide-reaching honeypot, with the suspected criminal users instead coming to them.
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US government agencies are rushing to tighten their computer security, after they have been hit by a cyberattack operation described as the worst in American history.
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It’s been a little over a week since the US government discovered that several of it’s agencies were the target of one of the biggest cyber attack that the country has ever seen.
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The U.S. Treasury and the Commerce Department were among the federal agencies that were victim of a massive cyberattack. The breach is suspected to be the work of Russian hackers.
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